Allan
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-- On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:36 AM, archytas <nwterry@gmail.com> wrote:
I discovered today that the Chairman of the Tory Party is Lord Fink.
You couldn't make it up!
On 20 Sep, 17:33, Allan H <allanh1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You are right,, b bu bu b bu but 'triune brain' sounds much kooler than
> Qu qu qu quadrune..
> .a an and that word definitions; some of which not really printable in mix
> company .. you potentially bad boy Neil ..lol
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> I actually think in a way that is common knowledge.. often times have
> really no idea what they are talking about,, I know I don't, as I am full
> of hot air ready to expel it quickly. Actually I think there is so much hot
> expelled that is what keeps the earth floating in space.
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> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:52 PM, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi/10.1371/journal.pone.0045457
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> > These Swedish researchers used a magic trick to show that people's
> > answers to survey questions are unreliable. I noticed many years ago
> > that most people haven't much clue what they are on about and can't
> > tell chalk from cheese. We are, in the main, moral wuckfits.
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> > The trick used was to get people to answer a few questions but change
> > a couple of the answers through a magic dodge. People argued in
> > support of the changed answers. even though they were the opposite of
> > the views they'd only just expressed. We have known 8 out of 10 cats
> > prefer Whiskas to powdered glass for many years (one of our pampered
> > pouch-devourers has just turn his nose up at Sheba as though I was
> > trying to poison him). Why do we have so much trouble taking in the
> > notion that companies pay for advertising because most people are
> > gulled by it and basically so stupid most of them operate with the
> > brain on switch off?
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> > This paper isn't all that interesting in-itself. What is interesting
> > is that much more material like this is appearing on PLos through open
> > access. One hopes the move away from vanity publishing and restricted
> > access. Over the years I found less than one in a hundred academic
> > papers worthwhile (one reads thousands in a research project and at
> > least half are likely to be outside the university's subscription and
> > cost $10 or so through inter-library loans - or $40 to the private
> > punter).
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> > Science doesn't have much comforting to tell us on human nature - this
> > is probably why most people don't want to know. It's probably time to
> > a new treatise on human nature. Economists are just discovering the
> > 'triune brain' (I was taught brain stem, reptilian, mammalian and the
> > cerebellum 45 years ago - I note that adds up to 4 and quadrune). In
> > fact there's plenty of reasonable science that demonstrates we are
> > lying, cheating, rationalising, broadly stupid bastards and some do
> > this in spades (we call them leaders or psychopaths) and most on a
> > less daring scale.
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> > Rather than describing human nature, great literature hides it from us.
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> |_D Allan
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> Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living.
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> I am a Natural Airgunner -
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> Full of Hot Air & Ready To Expel It Quickly.
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|_D Allan
Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living.
I am a Natural Airgunner -
Full of Hot Air & Ready To Expel It Quickly.
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